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More than three years into Sudan’s war, the humanitarian response has rightly focused on the basics of survival: food, shelter, water, and emergency medical care. But another crisis is unfolding quietly alongside it, one that gets far less attention: the slow collapse of the essential health services people rely on every day

It had been a rough few months. Cynthia Tompkins was hospitalized in May for osteomyelitis — a bone infection — then spent six weeks in a rehabilitation facility. “It was a struggle,” she said. “I didn’t bounce back too well.”

Sindh has only around 450 pediatric emergency beds for more than 9.5 million children under five